Lev, The Theremin Playing Robot
Writing by Conner Flynn on Thursday, 11 of October , 2007 at 1:05 am
We’ve all seen our share of musical robots, but Lev is somewhat unique. He’s a pretty accomplished theremin player. And when you think about it, the theremin is the perfect instrument for a musically inclined robot. It’s that eerie sounding instrument you’ve heard a million times in old Sci-Fi and horror B-movies.
Lev’s not new. He’s been performing for years. In 2003 he even played a performance at the Artbots 2003 show in New York. He was built by Ranjit Bhatnagar at Moonmilk Laboratories. The videos are kind of hypnotic. Both are the song “Crazy”. In the first video, it’s Patsy Cline. The second video is Gnarls Barkley, and has Lev accompanied by a robot drummer named Thumpbot, using some unusual objects as drums.
I wonder if Lev and Thumpbot could handle some AC/DC or Led Zeppelin.
Second video and links after the jump.
[Robots.net] VIA [Crave]
Category: Musical, Pop Culture
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